The Cyprus CCPIA Deliberations: Some of the Good Guys

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Now the period for the submission of comments on the renewal of the Cyprus bilateral cultiral property agreement is almost over and the three hundred philistine collectors who really do not care whether what they buy was lawfully exported or not have had their say, I thought it might be instructive to gather together in one post some of those who wrote to oppose the philistinism. The following list is probably not exhaustive, but one or two general characteristics do emerge. A lot of them stress that they are engaged in positions where they know, from first hand experience many of them, what they are talking about. they cite examples, publications, sources of information. this almost never occurs in the coiney rants. Many of the White Hat guys and ladies on this list are PhDs or professors. Most of them were not content with a hastily tapped-out misspelt three line inarticulate expression of opposition, cut and pasting a dealers' lobbyist's stock "suggested objections" (which I have dealt with earlier here). Most of these people wrote their contributions as a separate file which is attached as a pdf or Word document. Very few coineys wrote anything elaborate enough to require that. So here's the roll call of those rallying to the aid of the Cypriot cultural heritage. Many of these contributions are worth reading in their own right. Note that there are (real) numismatists in this list.

Lefki Michaelidou and Eleni Zapiti, The Director and Curator of the Numismatic Collection, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.

Jane DeRose Evans Professor, Art History, affiliated with the Department of Greek and Roman Classics (Fellow, American Numismatic Society, Member of the Royal Numismatic Society, Numismatist for the Harvard Expeditions to Sardis).

Elizabeth Greene, Brock University

Ioannis Eliades, Byzantine Museum & Art Gallery of the Archbishop Makarios III Foundation

Charalampos Chotzakoglou World Foundation for religion and Culture, Cyprus

Professor Sturt Manning, Cornell University

Professor Arthur Knapp, Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute

Dr Andrew McCarthy, Director Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute

Professor Nicolle Hirschfeld, Dept. of Classical Studies, Trinity University

Dr. Georgia Bonny Bazemore Jeffers, R. Chertok Professor of Ancient History Eastern Washington University

Joseph Greene, Harvard University

Professor Michael Tomlan, Cornell University, Heritage Watch.

Matthew Harpster, Kyrenia Shipwreck Collection Restoration Program (interesting other suggestion)

Jennifer Webb, La Trobe University

Ambassador Loucas Tsilas, Executive Director, Onassis Foundation (USA)

Judith A Wheelock

Shaikh Saeed.
Elliott Minoff, The Association for Promoting the Relations Between Israel and Cyprus.

Professor Eric Cline, The GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute at The George Washington University.

Christine Morris, Trinity College Dublin.

Christopher Schabel, University of Cyprus.

Maria Parani, University of Cyprus.

Paul Croft, University of Edinburgh.

Lindy Crewe, University of Manchester

Professor David Gill's submission

Sharon Cather Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

Janice Colebrook from Cyprus

Anne Santen AIA

Elizabeth Bartmann AIA (a problem with the attachments?)

Margaret Morden AIA Toronto

Vignette: The upright characters portrayed by John Wayne would have supported the MOU I am sure, they wear a white hat.